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Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Drawing on decades of experience and research, John W. Dower, author of the award-winning War Without Mercy, highlights for the first time the resemblances between wartime, postwar, and contemporary Japan. He argues persuasively that the origins of many of the institutions responsible for Japan's dominant position in today’s global economy derive from the rapid military industrialization of the 1930s, and not from the post-occupation period, as many have assumed. A brilliant lead essay, “The Useful War,” sets the tone for the volume by incisively showing how much of Japan’s postwar political and economic structure was prefigured in the wartime organization of that country.

Language: English

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Publisher: The New Press

Release: May 01, 1995

ISBN: 1565842790

ISBN 13: 9781565842793

Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Drawing on decades of experience and research, John W. Dower, author of the award-winning War Without Mercy, highlights for the first time the resemblances between wartime, postwar, and contemporary Japan. He argues persuasively that the origins of many of the institutions responsible for Japan's dominant position in today’s global economy derive from the rapid military industrialization of the 1930s, and not from the post-occupation period, as many have assumed. A brilliant lead essay, “The Useful War,” sets the tone for the volume by incisively showing how much of Japan’s postwar political and economic structure was prefigured in the wartime organization of that country.

Language: English

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Publisher: The New Press

Release: May 01, 1995

ISBN: 1565842790

ISBN 13: 9781565842793

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